Genesis 8:11

In the late afternoon it returned to the boat, it carried a leaf in its mouth. Noah said, “The water is really going down.”

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In The King James Version

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

In Context

10Noah waited seven days. After that again he sent out the dove.

12After that, in seven days, Noah again tried out the dove. It went away for good, it did not return. It saw ground.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:7-13

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled… Read the whole commentary →

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